01-27-2025, 06:19 PM
(01-27-2025, 05:32 PM)Nepa Wrote: NFL fans are saying they won't watch the games but it will be high ratings: Taylor Swift, fans rooting against Mahomes, fans rooting for Mahomes, fans rooting for three-peat, fans rooting against three-peat, Eagles fans, can KC stop the tush push the way they stopped it with Bills, etc. And as BengalsLUFC stated above, maybe some will hope to see the KC Tight End propose to the singer (he used much more colorful language).
I'm not saying it would be as highly rated as a Bills/Eagles game, but, as you worded it, I sure wouldn't be looking forward to seeing "the Buffalo Participation Trophy Bills ... face off against the New Woke Look Commanders." Chiefs/Eagles is probably what the NFL was clamoring for in terms of ratings, unless it were Detroit/Chiefs.
Detroit put themselves in the bizarrely tenuous position where they as a franchise have never even made the SB, yet anything other than winning the SB is seen as a failure of a season. If they falter again next year and the last thing people see is Jared Goff heading back to his SoCal mansion and Dan Campbell awkward "dude bro" crying, the narrative on them could get sour.
I get why people are sick of the Chiefs, but Josh Allen and the Bills have lost to them 4 times out of 4 tries and people are eventually going to stop going to bat for you if you never slay their evil giant. Personally, I find all the fan reactions to this stuff to be pretty fascinating...I worked in marketing psychology before I sold out and became a civil servant/doormat.
The Bills made it clear they aren't easy to trust to unseat the Chiefs, so good news for the Bengals to take up the mantle of "Hero Of the People" and slay the Chiefs...we just need ZT to stop treating the first month of the season as if it doesn't matter and we're in.